Delafield Public Library is approximately 1 mile south of SJNMA on Genesee Street (Highway C), in the same building as Delafield's City Hall. Cadets can borrow books from Delafield through the school library, or can get a public library card of their own. See Mrs. Koller for information and a library card application. Delafield is part of the "Constellation Cooperating Libraries", which includes eight local public libraries. Books from any of these libraries can usually be obtained in 2-3 days. This catalog includes books from all 8 libraries.
This online catalog includes most of the books in Wisconsin public and academic libraries. This link to "Wiscat Access by Systen" will take you to an entry point that allows you to search by county.
___You can search for items by title, author, subject, notes, or "all headings". Each catalog record is followed by a list of "Local Holdings": libraries which own the material. Books held in Waukesha County Libraries can usually be obtained within one week. Books from outside Waukesha County can take from one week to one month to obtain.
Search for books by author, title, series or genre. You can also look for "Award Winners" and "Author Read-Alikes." From Wisconsin's BadgerLink.
A great place to look for fast-reading middle school books. Here too you can search for books by author, title, series or genre. You can also look for "Award Winners" and "Author Read-Alikes." From Wisconsin's BadgerLink.
YALSA offers loads of book recommendations for teens, including these (and lots more!) :
EBOOKS: ELECTRONIC BOOKS ONLINE
This site from the University of Pennsylvania provides "an index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet." The index includes links to over 1,000, 000 online books - all free and full-text.
Project Gutenberg: Online Book Catalog
"Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today." You can search Project Gutenberg by Author and/or Title. You can also select ebooks by language: Gutenberg includes texts in 36 languages from Aleut to Yiddish.
AUDIOBOOKS
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"Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format."